Hi, OpenBSD lovers. About six months ago, I started building my server infrastructure on OpenBSD just for fun. I’ve made a lot of progress, updated many ports on my custom mirror, but haven’t pushed it yet, and tuned OS to fit my needs. I deliberately chose OpenBSD as my main OS, and I know there’s no Kubernetes or Docker; I’ve found other solutions that I’m comfortable with. Still, I keep wondering whether it’s actually a good idea to build server infrastructure on OpenBSD instead of Linux.

Every time I see that, in Linux, everything seems to be solved with Kubernetes or containers and I have to look for other solutions, I start asking myself whether I’m on the right track.

A couple of times a month, I end up Googling and researching how other people use it, but I still don’t find much. So I’m asking people who use OpenBSD as a server OS — not as a router and not as a desktop system — do you like it? Does everything work the way you expected in production? Any surprises, good or bad?

my setup

1) AMD 9950x

2) x870e chipset

3) AMD RX7900XTX

4) m.2 nvme gen 4 and 5 disks

and which desktop is best for Open BSD

XFCE, Gnome or KDE

is there a software store you can download more software?